Category: Fiber Optic News

Switzerland’s incumbent telecommunication service provider Swisscom and SGSW (St.Galler Stadtwerke) has completed fiber optic network deployment in St. Gallen. The city of St. Gallen updated the completion of the installation work in its website. As planned, the city of St.Gallen have got a fiber-optic network at the end of February 2019. The completion took more than nine years from the…

Northern Canadian Kivalliq hydro-fiber link project gets major support from the CanNor (Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency) to proceed with the study to implement fiber optic links in the region. As part of the project, a feasibility study is planned to advance the planning the nature and route of the hydroelectric-fiber optic link connecting Manitoba and Kivalliq region of Nunavut…

British Telecom (BT) has selected Ciena’s DCI Platform to upgrade its fiber netwrok capacity throughout the UK. The DCI Platform that increases the capacity of BT’s existing fiber optic cables will help the operator to meet data growth driven by 5G and its ongoing FTTP deployments. BT is preparing for deployment of 5G services in 16 cities by this year….

Openreach in pressrelase stated that it can now work to extend its fiber rollout to more premises across the Scotland by using the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband program. The engineering wing of British Telecom (BT) will connect more premises across Scotland and upgrade to faster fiber optic broadband through the £442 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband rollout program. The Digital…

Africa’s leading telecommunication service provider, MainOne has announced a fiber optic network project with the support of Facebook. An open access fiber optic network is planned in Edo and Ogun states of Nigeria. MainOne in a press release stated that the metro fiber infrastructure project in two states of Nigeria will be implemented with the support from Facebook. The infrastructure…

Greenlight Networks has begun deployment of fiber optic network Greece this Week and the residents will get connected with Rochester’s faster broadband service. Greenlight selected Greece Janes/Kirk area to start deploying fiber optic network in the area. Greenlight Networks offers an ultra-high-speed, broadband service to the residents and businesses. Greenlight announced its plans to deploy fiber optic networks in August…

Telia Carrier and Telxius announced a landmark agreement for multi-terabit capacity services combining transatlantic capacity from Telxius in the new 6,600 km MAREA cable system and Telia Carrier’s European backbone...

ZTE has successfully completed the tests on its IP+Optical solutions along with China Mobile. The pilot Projects conducted in five Chinese cities tested the capabilities of ZTE’s SDN based IP+Optical...